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New York – – September 24, 2026 -- More than 750 business leaders, investors and policymakers concluded the UN Global Compact's 2026 Leaders Summit in New York, pressing companies to convert sustainability commitments into measurable capital, operational and supply-chain decisions amid geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility.

Global Compact plans shared infrastructure by 2027 to de-risk sustainable investment

The two-day summit, held during UN General Assembly high-level week, focused on Driving Sustainable Growth and Resilience. The Global Compact announced plans to build shared infrastructure by 2027 spanning climate, living wages, gender equality and sustainable finance, aimed at aggregating demand, de-risking investments and scaling solutions across global value chains.

Abu Dhabi – September 24, 2026 -- Octane Rent has expanded its SUV fleet in Abu Dhabi, adding the Range Rover, Cadillac Escalade, Toyota Land Cruiser, Chevrolet Tahoe and BMW X7 to meet rising demand from the emirate's business and tourism sectors.

New SUV models join a 400-vehicle, 31-brand network across the UAE

The Abu Dhabi additions integrate into Octane Rent's existing operational fleet, which spans more than 400 vehicles across 31 brands in the UAE. The company operates all vehicles as company-owned assets rather than through third-party marketplace brokers.

Chicago – – September 24, 2026 -- Grainger (NYSE: GWW) assembled more than 4,000 disaster relief kits during its fifth annual Bucket Build, mobilizing over 500 volunteers at its Lake Forest, Illinois headquarters.

Volunteers pack 4,000 buckets with cleaning supplies and tools for disaster response

Grainger team members joined ToolBank USA partners and students from YouthBuild Lake County and YouthBuild Waukegan to fill five-gallon buckets with cleaning supplies and hand tools donated by Grainger. The kits are intended to support families with cleanup, repairs and initial recovery after natural disasters.

Houston – September 24, 2026 -- KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: KLXE) has adopted a limited-duration stockholder rights plan effective immediately, setting a 10% beneficial ownership trigger after a single investor sought to acquire as much as 30% of the company through a recently expired $125 million rights offering.

Board Cites Investor's History of Pursuing Takeovers After Building Stakes

KLX's Board said the plan responds to the rapid accumulation of common stock by a new investor who requested permission to purchase shares beyond the 9.995% ownership cap set under the company's Backstopped Equity Rights Offering. The company described the investor as having a documented pattern of acquiring large equity positions in public companies before pursuing unsolicited acquisition proposals or tender offers for those companies or their assets.

Camden, N.J. – September 24, 2026 -- New Jersey American Water has appointed Fred DeAndrea as director of Government Affairs and promoted Sakeema M. James to senior manager of Government Affairs, strengthening a team tasked with managing regulatory and legislative relationships as the utility expands infrastructure investment across the state.

DeAndrea joins from Comcast after two decades in New Jersey public policy roles

DeAndrea most recently served as senior director of government and community affairs for New Jersey at Comcast, leading advocacy efforts across the state. He began his career as a district representative for U.S. Rep. Robert E. Andrews and holds a political science degree from Rutgers University. He has served on the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce board and the Southern New Jersey Development Council.

Waterloo – September 24, 2026 -- Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) has priced $1 billion in senior secured notes, split evenly between $500 million of 6.700% notes due 2031 and $500 million of 7.150% notes due 2033.

OpenText locks in $1 billion in fresh secured debt across two maturities

The offering, structured under Rule 144A and Regulation S, is expected to close October 1, 2026, subject to customary conditions. The Notes will carry guarantees from OpenText's existing subsidiary guarantors and co-obligors, secured on the same basis as the company's senior secured credit facilities, term loan credit agreement and its 6.900% Senior Secured Notes due 2027.

Santa Clara, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- Everpure (NYSE: P) told investors at its 2026 Financial Analyst Meeting that three new growth businesses will account for approximately 20% of total revenue by fiscal year 2030, as the storage and data management company reaffirmed its fiscal 2027 guidance and issued a preliminary outlook for fiscal 2028.

Fort Wayne, Ind. – September 24, 2026 -- Electric terminal tractors have graduated from pilot programs to standard fleet equipment, with 76% of surveyed operators now reporting real operating-cost savings over diesel, according to a new report from the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE).

Cost savings, not sustainability goals, now drive adoption decisions

The report, "Beyond The Pilot: Electric Terminal Tractor Adoption, Four Years Later," found direct economic benefit has overtaken environmental targets as the top-cited reason fleets deploy the vehicles. NACFE first examined the technology in its 2022 report, The Use Case for Terminal Tractors, and revisited the market this year to track how fleet behavior has shifted.

Austin, Texas – – September 24, 2026 -- Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE: INN) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, after market close.

Summit schedules investor call for November 4

The real estate investment trust will hold its quarterly conference call at 9:00 AM ET on Wednesday, November 4, 2026. Investors can pre-register for dial-in access, and a live webcast will be available through the company's investor relations page.

A replay of the webcast will remain accessible on www.shpreit.com until February 1, 2027.

Portfolio spans 92 hotel assets across 24 states

As of September 23, 2026, Summit Hotel Properties owned interests in 92 lodging assets, with 50 wholly owned, totaling 14,027 guestrooms. The upscale-segment portfolio is spread across 24 U.S. states.

Dallas – September 24, 2026 -- Csquare, Inc. (NYSE: CSQR) confirmed that CEO Spencer Mullee will speak at the 2026 RBC Capital Markets Global Communications Infrastructure Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 1:50 pm CST.

Csquare CEO to present at RBC's global infrastructure event

The Dallas-based carrier-neutral colocation data center operator disclosed the speaking engagement, giving investors and industry analysts a scheduled window to hear directly from leadership on the company's strategic direction.

Company operates data centers across three countries

Csquare owns and operates a portfolio of data centers across major metropolitan markets in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, serving enterprise, network, cloud and technology customers with infrastructure supporting hybrid cloud environments and AI-enabled applications.

San Diego – September 24, 2026 -- Viking Therapeutics plans to raise $400 million through simultaneous public offerings of $200 million in common stock and $200 million in convertible senior notes due 2032, with proceeds earmarked for its obesity drug pipeline.

Viking structures two independent capital raises with built-in flexibility

The biopharmaceutical company intends to grant underwriters a 30-day option to purchase an additional $30 million in common stock and a separate 30-day option for up to $30 million more in notes to cover over-allotments. Completion of one offering is not contingent on the other, giving Viking flexibility if market conditions shift. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are serving as joint book-running managers for both transactions.

Newport Beach – September 23, 2026 -- Ultimate Longevity Center (ULC) has surpassed 300 sold territories worldwide after unveiling a 50-location Australian franchise rollout, with the first center confirmed for Sydney's Double Bay in Q1 2027.

ULC crosses 300 global territories within a year of launching U.S. franchise sales

The longevity and human-optimization brand, built by Sequel Brands founder Anthony Geisler alongside human biologist Gary Brecka and precision health platform Lifeforce, has sold more than 275 territories across the United States since opening franchise sales in 2026, including 200 in its first four months. The newly announced 50-center Australian network pushes the brand's global footprint past 300 territories.

Detroit – September 23, 2026 -- AquaAction has selected ten water-technology companies for AquaEntrepreneur Michigan, marking the organization's first commercialization wave in the United States after helping 72 companies generate CAD $260 million in annual revenue through its flagship Canadian program.

Ten Companies Enter a Ten-Month Commercialization Track

The cohort includes Accelerated Filtration, AmHyTech, DMR International, Geomind (operating as Lacuum), Green Steel Environmental, Myconaut, Nucleic Sensing Systems, Radmantis, Sequestro and Subtidal. Each will receive customized coaching, technical guidance and guaranteed pilot opportunities over ten months, targeting real-world deployment of technologies addressing pathogens, PFAS contamination, ammonia storage and water-quality monitoring.

Shanghai – September 23, 2026 -- Shanghai Chengwei Semiconductor Equipment Co., Ltd. has launched a laboratory central gas supply system capable of delivering gas purity up to 99.9999 percent, targeting semiconductor R&D facilities, university labs, and precision testing centers.

System consolidates scattered cylinders into a single external distribution station

The design removes individual gas cylinders from active research areas, cutting associated safety hazards while freeing floor space and streamlining lab workflows.

Sacramento, Calif. – September 23, 2026 -- HealthSherpa is expanding its multi-year partnership with AmeriHealth Caritas to include Marketplace Operations, its enrollment, premium billing and reconciliation platform for individual and family health plans sold on and off the Health Insurance Marketplace.

AmeriHealth Caritas will use the platform to reconcile enrollments and collect premiums

Under the expanded deal, AmeriHealth Caritas will process and reconcile enrollments directly with the Health Insurance Marketplace, collect subsidy and member premiums, and resolve data discrepancies before they affect member bills or coverage status.

Sacramento – – September 23, 2026 -- Ten California home insurers have requested $571 million in combined rate increases under Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's climate-model rules while committing to sell only 12,000 new home insurance policies, according to an analysis of Department of Insurance filings by Consumer Watchdog.

Tokyo – September 23, 2026 -- Notta has launched two new integration tools, Notta MCP and Notta CLI, allowing AI agents to pull meeting transcripts and summaries directly into their workflows without manual export steps. The tools became available to all users on all plans starting September 23, 2026.

Notta MCP connects AI agents to meeting data via a standard protocol

Notta MCP uses the Model Context Protocol, a standard for linking AI applications to external tools, to let compatible agents such as those built on Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor retrieve Notta transcripts, read completed summaries, and locate specific meeting records on request. Previously, users had to manually find a recording, export or copy its transcript, and feed it into their agent separately.

Melbourne – September 23, 2026 -- Australian performance brand 2XU has appointed Aaron Brown as Head of Wholesale & Business Development, North America, tasking a two-decade sporting goods veteran with expanding the company's commercial footprint across the United States and Canada.

Brown exits HydraPak's global sales leadership to join 2XU's North American buildout

Brown most recently served as Vice President of Global Sales at HydraPak, overseeing global revenue strategy, sporting goods, run specialty and outdoor retail channels, OEM partnerships and international distribution. Before that, he spent more than ten years at Under Armour, rising to Director of Sales with responsibility for North American commercial strategy across key and specialty accounts, spanning merchandising, go-to-market execution, ecommerce and inventory planning.

Louisville, Colo. – September 23, 2026 -- Sierra Space has appointed Warren Jenson to its board of directors, naming him chair of the audit committee as the defense-tech space company tightens financial governance ahead of what executives describe as a pivotal growth stage.

Jenson brings three decades of CFO experience across Amazon, Delta and NBC

Jenson has held senior financial leadership roles at Amazon, Electronic Arts, Delta Air Lines and NBC. He most recently served as president and CFO of Nielsen and previously held the same titles, plus executive managing director of international, at LiveRamp. He is currently chief financial officer of Polymarket.

Boca Raton, Fla. – September 23, 2026 -- BPD Health has launched a new brand identity, "It's Good to Grow," repositioning the two-decade-old healthcare marketing firm as a strategic growth partner for hospitals, life sciences firms and health innovators.

BPD traces its evolution from an advertising agency to a growth strategy firm

The company has operated under three names over more than 20 years: BPD Advertising, BPD Healthcare, and now BPD Health. Each iteration marked an expansion of scope, moving from healthcare marketing services toward broader strategic growth advisory work for health systems, life sciences companies, healthcare associations and consumer health brands.